Senior Manager, EMEA Benefits Operations

At Bristol Myers Squibb, our employees often ask, “Who are you working for?”—a question that fuels collaboration, accountability, and urgency in our work. Our purpose-driven culture inspires us to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines to prevail over serious diseases. We offer uniquely interesting and meaningful work, opportunities for growth, and a supportive environment that values inclusion, wellbeing, flexibility, and comprehensive benefits. This is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it. The **Senior Manager, EMEA Benefits Operations** plays a pivotal role in overseeing and managing the delivery of a diverse range of benefits to BMS employees across 24 markets in Europe and Middle East. Essential for providing leadership in benefit operations with their team, instilling a continuous improvement mindset, and having an excellent project management skillset. Focus on data-driven analytics, leveraging data insights and metrics to identify opportunities for process streamlining and automation. Requires fostering effective stakeholder management and communication skills to build relationships with cross-functional teams both regionally and globally, ensuring excellent customer experience for our employees. **Key Responsibilities:** - Provide Benefits subject matter expertise to the team, providing clear prioritization, assigning tasks and responsibilities, and monitoring outcomes. - Focus on data metrics to ensure the team delivers on service level agreements and analyze trends that can support opportunities for automation. - Lead and collaborate on projects to ensure successful outcomes for the region, including benefits open enrollments and country, regional, and global initiatives. - Seeks opportunities for process improvements and automation in our benefit delivery to our customers. - Accountable for robust compliance controls in the region’s benefit processes that will support audits and compliance requests. - Collaborate with the Benefit Governance and Global Benefits Product Design on operationalizing benefit offerings in the region to reduce manual actions and streamlining processes. - Oversee regional escalations, ensuring stakeholders are kept informed of issues and incidents, and support their Senior Specialist in the resolution. - Manage the region’s knowledge documents to ensure the team is updating documentation and providing further insight on benefit processes. - Establish and uphold high-quality standards in benefit operations to ensure exceptional service for our customers **Required Skills****:** - Benefit expertise within health, welfare, and retirement programs - Leadership of a regional team - Collaboration with and influence multiple stakeholders regionally and globally - Project Management - Data-Driven & Analytical Skills, AI user skills - Vendor Management - Customer-focus - Communication and presentation skills in simplifying complex benefit topics **Qualifications & Experience:** - Bachelor’s degree or equivalent - Experience working with: Workday, ServiceNow and Benefits Enrollment Platforms (Mercer Darwin or other) - Language Requirement – English (other languages are a plus) #LI-HYBRID We hire for skills and capabilities, not just credentials – if this role excites you, but doesn’t perfectly match your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway. ******Compensation Overview:****** Warsaw - PL: zł207,700 - zł251,629 The starting compensation range(s) for this role are listed above for a full-time employee (FTE) basis. 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